CEBU CITY —
President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is offering a P5.5 million reward for every
slain drug lord here in Cebu.
The offer was at least
100 times bigger than the P50,000 being dangled by Cebu City Mayor-elect Tomas
Osmeña for every dead suspected criminal.
“Ang sa Cebu kay buotan
man ang mga tao diri. May premium P5,500,000 (Those who live in Cebu are good
people. There is a premium, P5,500,000),” Duterte told the close to 300 people
who attended the thanksgiving party for him organized by a private group at the
Cebu Country Club here.
The tough-talking
Duterte, who won on the platform against criminality, said the reward has
actually been a plea for drug lords to stop what they have been doing.
“It’s really the plea.
Akong hangyo (My request). Stop it. Stop it. Para walay samok (so there would
be no trouble). I plead for you to stop fucking this country and we will be
alright. Wala tayong problema (We would not have a problem),” he said as he
closed his 40-minute speech on Wednesday evening.
Duterte said that he
knew of cases in which some policemen involved in anti-drug operations did not
declare the actual volume of the seized drugs.
He warned them to stop
this.
“I do not want to go to
the extreme but I am asking for the reversal of these things. If I cannot get
it the right way, then, I will do it the wrong way because I have a sworn duty
to protect the Republic,” he added.
He also warned the New
Bilibid Prison and all the jails in the country to stop drug smuggling into
their prisons and not wait for him to act on the problem. SFM
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